Maduro attacks Milei and advises Noboa in the face of the prison crisis in Ecuador

The president of Venezuela, Nicolas Madurooffered this Monday to his counterpart from Ecuador, Daniel Noboaadvice on penitentiary matters to control the wave of violence unleashed in that nation, which declared the existence of a “internal armed conflict” after clashes with irregular groups in prisons and in some areas.

“President Noboa, if you want to have a security system and a prison system, look for us, don’t look for the Southern Command. “What the Southern Command (of the United States) is going to do is interventionism, colonialism,” the president suggested during his annual message, from the National Assembly (AN/Parliament).

Maduro assured that “create chaos in countries” of the region, using criminal groups, is a “new strategy” cwith which the United States intends “occupy with the Southern Command” these territories.

In his opinion, any attempt to install military bases of the North American country in Latin America represents a violation of regional sovereignty and “a historical error”well “it doesn’t solve the problem.”

Last week, Ecuador experienced a wave of violent acts that included the temporary takeover of a television channel by an armed group in Guayaquil, burning cars, threats to universities, state institutions and businesses.

The incidents, which left eight dead, began after the escape of José Adolfo Macías, alias ‘Fito’, leader of Los Choneros, one of the most dangerous criminal gangs in the country with alleged links to Mexican cartels.

In response, the Ecuadorian president decreed a state of emergency throughout the country for 60 days and declared an “internal armed conflict,” which implies the immediate mobilization and intervention of security forces against organized crime.

Maduro assured that in Venezuela they intended to apply “a method similar to that of Ecuador” from the seven prisons that were recently taken over by State security forces, in the midst of a government plan to dismantle criminal structures that operate in these centers.

During these operations, the Venezuelan authorities seized 605 firearms, 862 knives and 399,587 ammunition, according to the official balance, which also accounts for the recovery of 4,015 spaces within these centers and the transfer of more than 8,000 deprived of their rights. freedom to other prisons.

Javier Milei, a “fatal mistake”

Nicolás Maduro also referred to his Argentine counterpart, Javier Milei, whom he described as a “fatal error” in the history of his country and Latin America, due to his economic policies, especially the reduction of the State applied by the far-right in the South American nation.

“I don’t aspire for you to rectify it, but I do want you to receive this message, that you are wrong (…) You are a mistake in the history of Latin America, Milei, a fatal mistake in the history of Argentina,” Maduro said during his annual message before the National Assembly (AN, Parliament), in Caracas.

The socialist leader criticized that Milei, in power since last December 10, has eliminated several ministries in the belief that “By shrinking the State, prosperity will be born by spontaneous generation.”

“You are wrong, Milei (…) you were put in Argentina to destroy the rule of law, to destroy the State, to destroy all social and labor rights, to destroy the national economy and to colonize Argentina and deliver it on its knees to North American imperialism,” held.

Maduro insisted that the line marked by his Argentine counterpart “It is not the way” to continue and that, on the other hand, in Venezuela it will continue “defending the need for a powerful social State, justice and law.”

The rise of the far-right to power meant an ideological fracture in the relations between Caracas and Buenos Aires, which experienced tensions during the Presidency of Mauricio Macri (2015-2019), which returned to normal during the mandate of Alberto Fernández, which has just ended. .

On several occasions, Maduro has denounced that Milei wants to turn Argentina into a “colony of foreign capital” and “subject the people to neoliberal packages.”